The Travel Ban as Religious Discrimination: Judges’ Engagement of Political Discourse and Recent History
On March 15, 2017, two federal district courts, in Hawaii and Maryland, enjoined the enforcement of President ...
Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination
Understanding Direct Discrimination Suffered ‘As a Female Muslim’ in Achbita
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its long-awaited decision in Samira Achbita v G4S ...
A Legal Battle for Transgender Rights in America Is Postponed, But Not For Long
On March 6, 2017, the United States Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts a case that would have decided ...
Access, Affordability, and the American Health Reform Dilemma, Part III: How an ACA Repeal Would Devastate Appalachia
Throughout the 2016 American election cycle, most Republicans, including President Donald J. Trump, ran on ...
Access, Affordability, and the American Health Reform Dilemma, Part II: The Affordable Care Act’s First Seven Years
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) turned seven last week, with a proposed legislative ...
Access, Affordability, and the American Health Reform Dilemma, Part I: Genesis of the Affordable Care Act
The debate over the government’s role in health care is not a new one, nor is the existential crisis that ...
Direct Discrimination and Indirect Discrimination: Headscarves and the CJEU
The decision of the CJEU in Achbita has been much anticipated as the first full judgment of the Court on ...
What the Trump Presidency Means For Gender Discourse Development
The Trump Administration’s gender-related policies have been characterized by some as a “war against women.” An ...
First Group v Paulley: Towards Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport?
First Group Bus v Paulley is the first UK Supreme Court (or House of Lords) case on reasonable adjustments in ...
Courts Recognizing Transgender Rights
On 6th of February 2017, a law which discriminated against transgender people was amended for the first time in ...
Confronting Ongoing Racial Discrimination in Schools Admissions Policies in South Africa
I am now in my final month of working for the Legal Resources Centre and Rhodes University as the Oxford Human ...
Wotton v Queensland: A Milestone for Police Accountability in Australia
The Federal Court of Australia recently delivered a milestone judgment for police accountability in Wotton v ...
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